When we see the actions of certain characters in various positions of political power, a feeling of perplexity arises in us. This feeling is transformed into a kind of “universal shame” on the part of citizens […]
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The UNHCR estimates that over 500,000 Syrians will be in need of international refuge and resettlement in 2018.
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“Human life revolves around love and death.” -Svetlana Alexievich
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After the first travel ban was blocked by federal courts, the US government has imposed a new one on six major Muslim countries.
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“I am convinced that what we are seeing is something seen before: these angry flailings are dangerous and frightening, but they are death throes, not signs of rebirth.” -South African writer Tony Eprile on the parallels between Trump’s rise to power and the end of apartheid in South Africa
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